Welcome to the ICCO wiki on value chain development

ICCO/Kerkinactie is strongly dedicated to fighting injustice and poverty. It has three main programmes to do so, namely Access to Basic Services, Democracy and Peace Building and Sustainable and Fair Economic Development (SFED) 

With in the SFED programme ICCO/Kerkinactie works on improving access to international markets, financial services, partnerships with the Dutch private sector, the climate programme and local market development (LMD).

Value chain development is a central concept in the SFED programme. This wiki aims at contributing to the development of a clear vision and strategy towards this value chain development. This wiki is based on a document written by Andre Vording (ICCO programme specialist on local market development) on the ICCO strategy for value chain development

What to expect of this wiki

• Theme: Support to pro-poor and gender-sensitive development of agro-value chains in developing countries.

• For whom?: This site is developed for practitioners involved in ICCO supported Value chains development programmes. Practitioners meaning: Programme Officers of the ICCO Regional Working Organisations (RWOs), Advisory Board members, Programme Facilitators and Advisors, Specialists in the Central working Organisation but also consultant involved in assignments related to these programmes. The wiki might be useful for partner organisations involved in the programmes but these are not the primary target group of this wiki.

   

• What can be found?:

  • This wiki will provide the practitioner with guidelines, tips, and tools to be taken in the different phases of the programme development

  • At the same time the wiki will provide links to relevant international literature

  • Contributions of practitioners

  • Please realize that this wiki is still under construction

     

• Willing to contribute?

  It is the intention to further develop the wiki bases on learning experiences in different ICCO programmes. These experiences will be used as illustration. Readers are encouraged to comment, to suggest and provide us with materials to be made accessible via this wiki. Read more on the page Willing to contribute to this ICCO Value Chain wiki

   

The pages of this wiki will follow the order of a project and/ the action learning cycle

1. ICCO SFED and value chain development

2. Selection of value chains

3. Value chain analysis

4. Strategies for upgrading and improvement of value chains

5. M&E

6. Lessons learned (case descriptions)

7. Willing to contribute to this ICCO Value Chain wiki

8. Frequently Asked Questions